The dance of death: the parish priest. Woodcut by Hans Holbein the younger.

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1 print : woodcut ; image 6.6 x 5 cm

Sum quidem & ego mortalis homo. Sap. VII. Ecce Sacramentum coelestia munera porto unde serat certam iam moriturus opem. Sum quoq; mortalis, simili quia sorte creatus tempora cum uenient cogar ut ille mori.

A.S. Warthin, The physician of the dance of death; a historical study of the evolution of the dance of death mythus in art, New York 1931, pp. 34-56

W.L. Gundersheimer, The dance of death by Hans Holbein the younger, New York 1971, pp. vii-xiii

Wellcome Collection 29224i